Patio revisited

[aspenarb]

A few pics of a patio my landscape lads did a few years ago, I never got to see it finished but we were back there doing other work a few days ago so took some snaps.

 

This was all dug into the bank, a fair few tons of soil removed and a lot of aggregate went back in on the sub base .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dig-dug-dan]

Some of those flags look heavy buggers to lay! Was it bradstone old town? 

What did you use for the joints?

[forestboy1978]

Tidy, apart from the cross roads in the patio. Doesn't require a lot of thinking to make sure all joints are offset for better aesthetics. Aside from that looks very nice. 

 

Why did they put the gravel bed between the walling and grass? Was it to offset expansion and contraction loads on the wall?

 

 

[Matthew Storrs]

49 minutes ago, forestboy1978 said:

Tidy, apart from the cross roads in the patio. Doesn't require a lot of thinking to make sure all joints are offset for better aesthetics. Aside from that looks very nice. 

 

Why did they put the gravel bed between the walling and grass? Was it to offset expansion and contraction loads on the wall?

 

 

Gravel would be for drainage. I’d expect there’s a pipe at the bottom of the gravel to take the water away so that it doesn’t build up behind the wall- looks like it’s a dry stone wall though in which case it would drain anyway.

 

tidy job Bob. Nice to see work still looking good years later

[aspenarb]

19 minutes ago, Matthew Storrs said:

Gravel would be for drainage. I’d expect there’s a pipe at the bottom of the gravel to take the water away so that it doesn’t build up behind the wall- looks like it’s a dry stone wall though in which case it would drain anyway.

 

tidy job Bob. Nice to see work still looking good years later

 

Spot on Matthew, all the surrounding land falls/drains to the patio which unfortunately is the lowest point. All the Aco drainage and the shingle traps are piped into an old well which has a pump with a float switch, that in turn pumps the surface water away to a stream. Before we built this they had a permanently unusable quagmire right outside their back door.

 

Bob